I wrote some time again that two younger members of the family shot a wild hog at our Mississippi house, a positive signal that I’m now residing off the grid.
The menfolk field-dressed the hog on the driveway and disposed of the center at a top-secret location as a peace providing to the turkey vultures. The following morning, your complete household minimize the meat into huge chunks and put the harvest within the freezer.
Now what? Can we actually eat this porcine trespasser?
My brother-in-law despatched me The Hog E-book by Jesse Griffiths. This encyclopedic quantity is the definitive information to searching, killing, butchering, and consuming feral pigs.
In The Hog E-book’s opening pages, Griffiths confidently asserted that every one wild pigs are edible and a few are scrumptious.
Can that be true? How can an animal so ugly and foul-smelling be good to eat?
Nonetheless, I’ve a number of pals who’ve killed and eaten feral hogs. They guarantee me that the little wild piggies are fairly tasty, though giant boars ought to be prevented.
Our household’s chief outdoorsman, Charlie, ready the household’s first wild pig meal: Feral Hog and Rutabaga Stew. I ate two helpings and pronounced it glorious.
Right here’s the recipe:
Season a pork shoulder with salt, pepper, and Tony Chachere’s seasoning. Brown the meat in a big saucepan with a little bit of cooking oil.
Whereas the meat is browning, minimize up an onion, two bell peppers, a big head of celery, and two rutabagas. The rutabagas ought to be sliced into one-inch cubes.
Place the minimize greens within the saucepan with the browned pork shoulder. Add two cups of beef inventory. Cowl the saucepan with a lid and simmer the meat and greens over low warmth for 3 hours or till the pork meat is tender sufficient to be pulled into giant shreds with a fork.
Why the rutabagas? In contrast to potatoes, rutabagas will keep agency by three hours of cooking. Additionally, rutabagas add a candy style to the stew and diminish the gamey style of untamed hog meat.
I’ve lengthy been intrigued by the concept of taking pictures and consuming a wild pig. In spite of everything, there are thousands and thousands of feral swine within the rural South, and so they’re all edible.
When the Apocalypse descends on America, because it certainly will, I am comforted within the information that I’m surrounded by pork chops on the hoof. My household can eat humanely raised, hormone-free, wild-caught meat throughout lean instances, whereas my ill-prepared city neighbors will likely be compelled to outlive on ramen noodles and freeze-dried tofu.
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| Have you ever ever eaten a feral hog? Many elements are edible. No, actually! |
